Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 179 pounds
a wrestler who weighs 192-214 pounds
a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds [syn: cruiserweight]
Wikipedia
Light heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports.
The light heavyweight division in mixed martial arts generally refers to competitors weighing from 186 to 205 lb (84 to 93 kg). It sits between the lighter middleweight division, and the heavyweight division.
The light heavyweight limit, as defined by the Nevada State Athletic Commission and the Association of Boxing Commissions is 205 lb (93 kg)
ONE Championship's light heavyweight limits between 206 to 225 lb (93.1 to 102.1 kg).
Usage examples of "light heavyweight".
Knowing the only way to compete with nepotism was to make the weight, I punched bags, skipped meals and skipped rope until I was a nice, safe light heavyweight again.
The features of his face still in place, a jaunty bounce to his walk, an alertness in his eyes, the primness of his mouth even more pronounced, but still the champ, the light heavyweight champion back in nineteen twenty-something.
There definitely were some very weird decisions given and one of them was when our Australian light heavyweight, Tony Madigan, fought Cassius Clay and the crowd booed after the verdict was given to Clay.
Once he had been Olympic light heavyweight champion, but he had fleshed out since those days, his belly was softening and spreading and his breath was short.
Next to Ludmilla, she looked like a light heavyweight boxer at the end of his career.
I really wanted to see how the middleweight wrestler was going to do against the light heavyweight.
Unk was a well-made man - a light heavyweight, dark-skinned, with poet's lips, with soft brown eyes in the shaded caves of a Cro-Magnon brow ridge.
But I must warn you I was highly thought of in the light heavyweight division.
Four minutes later I wrote on a pad: Ritchy Belleau, popular young light heavyweight contender, died in the Sisters Hospital just before midnight February 19 as a result of ring injuries sustained the previous evening in the main event at the Hollywood Legion Stadium.